Leftronic is part of an emerging market of "Dashboard" apps--apps that help organizations with data all over the place get that data into one place so that wisdom can be drawn from it.
The concept of having a Dashboard is 100% good. The ability to create an application that executes properly on the concept is 100% difficult. There are still no standard, copy/paste methods of syncing data across a variety of sources like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and the hundred other apps your organization uses.
Worse still, even if we could solve the data collection problem, we're still at a loss for drawing wisdom from the data to make decisions. "What does 1,000 visitors last week really mean?"
I played with Leftronic for 10 minutes and feel they're on to something. This beta is still a developer's application, not something an executive or intern could just point-click-launch. It does have a simple, straightforward interface that lets you drag and drop widgets on to different dashboard pages, but getting data, even from sources like Google Analytics let alone custom sources, is just not going to be simple for the layman. Nevertheless it's a preview of things to come for this important market--and a good preview at that.
